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A Turkish opposition lawmaker says he is helping the families of nine British medical students believed to have crossed into Syria from Turkey. Mehmet Ali Ediboglu said Sunday the family members are at the Turkey-Syria border Sunday trying to find the students. He says he believes the students have crossed into northern Syrian territory controlled by the Islamic State group. Turkish media report that the students traveled together from Sudan to Istanbul. Reports say one 19-year-old student messaged her relatives by phone to say that the group wanted to volunteer, helping wounded Syrians. Britain's Foreign Office says it has asked Turkish police to try to find out where the...

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A Turkish opposition lawmaker says he is helping the families of nine British medical students believed to have crossed into Syria from Turkey.
Mehmet Ali Ediboglu said Sunday the family members are at the Turkey-Syria border Sunday trying to find the...

Three male teens from Britain who reached Turkey before being deported to the U.K. and arrested are believed to be the latest examples of a worrying trend — the rising number of young Britons seeking to travel to Syria to join extremists there.
The three...

A U.S. Air Force veteran and former airplane mechanic charged with attempting to join the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded not guilty Wednesday to terrorism charges.
A bearded Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, wearing prison-issued khaki pants and a blue...

A U.S. Air Force veteran who was recently fired from his job as an airplane mechanic plotted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and was arrested on terrorism charges, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, of...

A 21-year-old British woman suspected of trying to travel to Islamic State group territory in Syria has been detained in Turkey, government officials said Tuesday.
The woman, identified as J.N.H., was detained at a bus terminal in Ankara late Monday...

Police investigating the disappearance of three British teenage girls say they believe they are no longer in Turkey and have crossed into Syria.
Authorities believe the girls could be on their way to join the Islamic State group.
British police defended...

A Turkish television station says it has obtained video showing three missing British teenagers at an Istanbul bus terminal before they boarded a bus to a city near Turkey's border with Syria.
A Haber news, which has close ties to the government,...

This is in response to "In Turkey, a bloody artery; Escape to Syria of Charlie Hebdo suspect shows country’s role as jihadi highway" (News, Jan. 29). The Turkish Consulate and community strongly reject the baseless accusations portrayed and...

Turkey and the United States signed an agreement Thursday to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.The two countries have been in talks about such a pact for several months. The deal was signed...

This is in response to “In Turkey, a bloody artery; Escape to Syria of Charlie Hebdo suspect shows country’s role as jihadi highway” (News, Jan. 29). The Turkish Consulate and community strongly reject the baseless accusations portrayed and are fighting...

Some 100 years later, the black-and-white photo, grainy and archaic as it may be, remains ghastly and gruesome, documentation of grand inhumanity still difficult to digest today.The remains of a woman and two young children lay lifeless, starved to...

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Four international films will be presented for free on Friday nights this spring by the College of Lake County Center for International Education. The films begin at 7 p.m. in Room A162 (Anderson lecture hall) on the CLC Grayslake Campus, 19351 W....

A prosecutor says the shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a female police officer and four hostages at a kosher grocery. In a brief statement Sunday, the...

As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man who was seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen, French police said Monday.The disclosure came as France deployed...

This is in response to “Turkey’s war on the press’’ (posted online Jan. 5). I regret to see that the Chicago Tribune published an opinion that uses unfounded, misleading and politically motivated allegations about my country under the guise of issues...

When I first appeared in court after last month's raid on my newspaper in Istanbul and 80 hours of detention, I asked the judge: "Two columns and a news report: Is that all the evidence against me?" The judge replied, "Yes." It...

From the hilltop mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, a panoramic sweep of this modern capital shows skyscrapers, five-star hotels, bustling residential districts and, to the west, an extravagant new official residence...

The Bolingbrook teen’s plan to join terrorists in the Middle East was carefully laid out, with plane tickets connecting through Austria, a contact to take him across the Syrian border to the Islamic State stronghold and even a letter left for his...

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, rose before dawn on Oct. 4 to pray with his father and 16-year-old brother at their neighborhood mosque in Bolingbrook.
When they returned home just before 6 a.m., the father went back to bed and the Khan teens secretly launched...

The main al-Qaida affiliate in Syria is extending its control over a swath of territory that was until recently held by the collapsing moderate opposition, jeopardizing U.S. plans to form a new rebel force to fight extremists.
Since routing two of the...